Why Boise?

The press release says something about 4 people in Boise a long time ago?

None of the quotes have anyone from Boise or even Idaho. Not the governor of Idaho, not a University of Idaho faculty.

There are quotes from Lutnick, Cook from Apple, Jensen Huang, someone from Stanford.

What's the connection to Idaho? Why put this there?

As an Oregonian, I'm a little biased, but why not put this closer to ex-Intel employees and a source of labor. As an Oregonian living now in Florida, the stories about everyone from California moving to Texas and Florida definitely don't seem true to me. My opinion is that those migration patterns hide the realities which is that you've definitely got a lot of financiers and billionaires like Sergey Brin (i.e. tax evaders) declaring they are now Florida residents. And a bunch of people outside of high skilled fields (setting aside healthcare workers) who are migrating in search of cheaper housing. But not a lot of "middle class" tech people (I've been searching for four years and they aren't here). Probably they don't want to subject themselves to the worst public schools in the country and fight the culture wars.

But the point is, how do you staff this research lab without an expectation that thousands of people will move their families there. This is a research lab, not jobs for a data center (electrician and construction).

Lowest vaccination rates in the country, measles at only 75%. Biggest gender pay gap in the country. No protections for gay people, strong anti-immigrant sentiment.

What could possibly go wrong with a research hub that can only attract straight white guys who don’t care about their kids getting terrible diseases?

$10B press release

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How about building another fab first?

Sebastian: You should come.

Mia: To Boise?

Sebastian: You can knock it off your bucket list.

~ La La Land 2016